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Bean-Counters and Baloney

/ Wrote: Aug 13, 2010 6:14 PM
“In 2008,” Michelle Rena Jones, an African-American woman, says with a laugh, “we cheered, hollered, partied, celebrated.” The party’s over in 2010, though, and she knows it. Jones says promises haven’t been fulfilled, and now she feels as though she made a mistake — and she’s not the only one. The Wall Street Journal tells a story that George Stephanpoulos notes Democrats “don’t want to hear” in this midterm cycle, a story of hype and disillusion that has voters looking for change in 2010 — real change: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/08/13/video-im-willing-to-take-a-chance-on-something-different/ Now, the 40-year-old is rethinking her lifelong support for the party. She has been without steady work for two years, lost her home...

The bean-counters have struck again-- this time in the sports pages. Two New York Times sport writers have discovered that baseball coaches from minority groups are found more often coaching at first base than at third base. Moreover, third-base coaches become managers more often than first-base coaches.

This may seem to be just another passing piece of silliness. But it is part of a more general bean-counting mentality that turns statistical differences into grievances. The time is long overdue to throw this race card out of the deck and start seeing it for the gross fallacy that it is.

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